Also tonight, Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall hosts a free tasting of Bourbon County Stout from 6 PM to 8 PM at Lush Wine & Spirits. The 2005, 2006, and 2007 vintages of the intense brew will be stacked up against each other.

And as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, two critically acclaimed food documentaries, The Future of Food and Our Daily Bread, screen back to back tonight at Facets. At 6:30 PM, the first, directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, examines the effects of biotechnology and U.S. patent laws—particularly as manipulated by Monsanto—on consumers and small farmers and traces “the web of connections between major agricultural industrialists and the highest levels of government.” The second, screening at 8:30 PM, is director Nikolaus Geyrhalter's expose of "the brave new world of industrial food production and high-tech farming." $5 per film in advance; $7 at the door.

Sunday at 1 PM, the Pro/Am Wine Tasting Contest at Geja’s Cafe, billed as “the Olympics of wine tasting,” challenges participants in both professional and amateur divisions to identify the grape, place of origin, and vintage of eight wines. The prize (one for each division) is an engraved crystal decanter. It's $17 to enter.

The grand opening of Provenance's new Lincoln Square location at 2312 W. Leland is Sunday from 5-9 PM. There'll be wine, appetizers, and a drawing for prizes.

Naha hosts a Right Bite Dinner, the latest in Shedd Aquarium’s series of sustainable seafood dinners at restaurants around town, Monday at 6 PM. Shedd specialists will discuss news from the aquarium; the menu will feature such exemplifiers as trap-caught Florida stone crab, Lake Huron Great Lakes Canadian whitefish, locally harvested cranberries, and foraged black walnuts. $75.

Cook au Vin’s Fete the Late Harvest, a French wine and cheese festival, Thursday 11/8 from 7 PM to midnight at the Cook au Vin party room, isn’t for the faint of heart. Prominent among the selection of 20 cheeses — some relatively rare — are pungent washed-rind cheeses, including Livarot, Pont l’Eveque, and Epoisses (whose aroma reportedly got it banned from French public transport). The blues, particularly Roquefort Societe and Saint Agur, aren’t exactly mellow either. $30 if reserved by 11/3, $45 after.